Honey Bee Stamps Under The Sea Blog Hop!

Hello everyone!
Today I'm here to share my cards for the Honey Bee Stamps Under The Sea Blog Hop. We have an a amazing new release and loads of inspiration & prizes, you wouldn't want to miss. You should have come here from the amazing Galina's Blog, If not, you can start from the Honey Bee Stamps blog. Here's a look at my cards for the hop :

CARD INSPIRATION :

 I have added few clear dew drops, stars and sequins from the Coral Shell Sequin Mix.

To create this card, I started with the new Swimming By set. I stamped the mermaid on Neenah Solar White Classic Crest 110 lbs cardstock and coloured it using the Zig Clean Color markers. I fussy-cut it out and placed it on my card base. The sun-rays were lightly ink blended using a DIY stencil I made. The waves were also created using the same way. I used Broken China for the waves & Mustard Seed Distress ink for the rays. I also stamped, fussy-cut and added those tiny elements on the bottom of the card using stamps from Under The Sea set. The sentiment is from the Mermaid Song set. I added few sequins, dew drops and stars from the Coral Shell Sequin mix to complete my card.


CARD 2 : MISS YOU SHAKER CARD 

I have used the Ocean Borders stamp set for this card. I started by stamping the large 6'' X 6'' Ocean Waves pattern using Versamark Embossing ink on Neenah 110lbs cardstock and heat embossed it in white. I watercolored the background using Zig Markers.  For the focal of my card, I again used the mermaid from the Swimming By set as well as the smaller images from the Under The Sea set. All of them have been stamped, coloured and fussy-cut. I added sequins from the Birthday Bash Sequin Mix to create the shaker. I then used an inverted scalloped rectangle die frame to complete the shaker. I added another scalloped frame over the watercolored background and popped it on foam tape for that raised look. It was colored lightly using Broken China Distress ink. Matted everything on a A2 Card Base to complete my card.

BLOG HOP DETAILS :
Swim along with our New Release - Under The Sea with Honey Bee! So let's Shellabrate with some splashingly sweet prizes!!  We will have TWO winners that will each receive a $50 gift certificate to purchase new goodies in the Honey Bee Stamps Store.
All you have to do to win is comment on the Honey Bee Stamps blog and again at each of the designer’s blog by Sunday, July 16th. Winners will be announced on Monday, July 17th at Noon PST. So swim along and get ready to SEA some inspiration!

BLOG HOP LIST :

>>The next stop on the hop is the lovely, Jo Herbert. Hop over to her blog to see some amazing inspiration!

The wonderful line-up of the Honey Bee Stamps designers is as follows:

Alanna Moses

Alexandra Stapleton

Amy Rysavy

Angel Rivera

Bibi Cameron

Brenda Noelke

Carrie Bryant

EK Gorman

Emily Midgett

Galina Fillippenko

Hussena Calcuttawala >>> That's ME!

Jo Herbert

KajaVezensek

Kelley Kohout

Lisa Cisneros

Melissa Bickford

Melissa Chipperfield

Nichol Spohr

Patricia Lara

Taniesa Vlasak

Tracy Freeman

Vera Wirianta Yates  

Yulianna Neginskaya

I hope you like my cards. I would love to hear what you think of them and if you have a favourite? Have a nice day everyone!

Hi Fabulous | Card

Hi friends!
I am back again to share my this week's inspiration card for Honey Bee Stamps. Here's a look at it :

To start with, I cut-out several die-cuts of the Honey Bee Honey cuts - Fabulous die. I then used my Gansai Tambi Watercolor pan (Color number. 64) to colour all of them lightly and I arranged them on my card panel. Next, I die-cut the frame on the right side of the card using a Gina Marie Designs die and then coloured it using Faded Jeans Distress Oxide. The main pink floral is from the Honey Bee Stamps Lotus Blossom set. I have colored the flower as well as the leaves & foliage using Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens. The leaves and foliage are from the Zen Florals set which have been stamped, heat-embossed & then die-cut using the Zen Florals die. The big sentiment 'Hi' is from the Hello Gorgeous set which is again stamped and die-cut using the coordinating die. As usual, I added few black paint splatters and sequins as the finishing touch for my card :)

Here's another look at my card :

I'm entering my card in The Flower Challenge - Embossing (I've clear heat-embossed the leaves and foliage).

I hope you like my card. Do let me know if you did :)

Thanks for stopping by & have a nice day!

Celebrate | Honey Bee Stamps Card

Hi everyone!

I'm back to share my this week's card for honey Bee Stamps. You may have seen it on my Facebook & Instagram pages already, and if not, here's my card :

To create this card, I first took a A2 card base which I created using Neenah Solar White Classic Crest cardstock. Next, I did some stenciling on the background using the Honey Bee Stamps Hexagon Background Layering stencil. I used Prima Marketing Light Paste mixed with some Mustard Seed Distress ink to create a custom paste. For my flowers and foliage, I stamped the images from three different sets- Honey Bee Stamps Hello Gorgeous, Country Blooms and Zen Florals. Don't all of them look fantastic together? I colored them using my Zig Clean Color Real brush pens and then cut them out using their coordinating die sets. For my sentiment, I used the Hooray Honey Cuts set. I added few clear dew drops and black paint spatters to finish off my card.

Linking my card to the Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes Challenge & Stamping Sensations - Flowers.

I would love to know what you think of my card! Thanks for stopping by!

Some happy news + Cards to share!

Hi everyone,
I know it's been a very long time since I posted anything on my blog. I was on a break + I find it much easier to share new projects on my Facebook and Instagram pages these days.
Anyways, I wanted to start this post by sharing some very happy news! I have been selected to be a part of the wonderful Honey Bee Stamps Social Media Design team. Wohoo, I'm so excited :) I'm here to share my cards I created for my first post.

This is the first card I created with grey watercolored stripes.

Second card with yellow stripes.

I have kept the card design same for both of them, I just changed the colour of the background stripes. To start with, I stamped the flowers and leaves from the Honey Bee Stamps Country Blooms stamp and then used the coordinating die set for cutting the flowers and foliage. I coloured them using my Zig Clean Colour Real Brush markers. Next, I die-cut a circle using the Stitched Circles die by Gina Marie Designs. The white frames on the card base have been cut using the Double Stitched A2 Rectangle Frame die which is also by Honey Bee Stamps. I ink blended the circles using Tumbled Glass Distress ink and stamped the sentiment from the HBS Happy Everything set. Finally I adhered few sequins from the Spring Mix and added black paint splatters to finish off my cards. What do you think? Which is your favourite. I would love to hear :)

That's it from my side today! I hope you like my cards. If you do , don't forget to leave me a comment!

Have a nice day everyone.